We analyze a stochastic general equilibrium model which incorporates three different types of government expenditure. We calibrate the model and estimate, using US data, the multivariate stochastic process generating the components of public expenditure and the Solow residual. These estimates...

A model in which nominal wages are set by contracts that have cost-of-living objectives is likely to be consistent with the evidence of a unit root in the real GNP process of many countries. Values of the autoregressive root in the GNP process are calculated numerically for many countries using...